Topic: Power Managment/battery fix

After getting mostly everything to work i noticed that my battery meter was not reporting correctly, i thought it was something i installed while messing with my installation so i ended up reformatting to make sure

turns out it wasn't, the final version of snowywind osx used a different kext to manage battery than the final one

after some research with the alpha installation that i had before and the final i saw the alpha used voodoobattery.kext

after removing theAppleACPIBatteryManager.kext in /Extra/Extensions

and using kext helper to install voodoobattery.kext and repaired permissions accordingly i had a working battery meter big_smile

in short what i did was

back up AppleACPIBatteryManager.kext  just in case

delete it from /Extra/Extensions

ran kext utility to repair permissions


http://www.superhai.com/files/current/r … y.kext.zip

dragged voodoobattery.kext into kext utility to install it

rebooted
done

on to the second resolved issue

after reading on the insanelywind forums and testing myself i found  that it was true that if are on battery power and you play some audio , for example from itunes it will play for a few seconds then cause a kernal panaic

they traced it back to the voodoopower.kext in  /Extra/Extensions

once again i repeated the steps above to remove the kext and install


http://www.superhai.com/files/current/r … i.kext.zip

voodoopowermini.kext

turns out this did the trick and how audio works fine while on battery power

next issue is to get videos work in vlc, will report back when i have that working

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